PAP4@AI.AI.MIT.EDU ("Philip A. Prindeville") (12/12/87)
(plug, plug, plug)
Doug Comer ("Xinu", et al) is writing a book about Internetworking,
pretty much outside of the context of an operating system, though he
does talk briefly about 4.3BSD (sockets and utilites). The book
is fairly exhaustive, and seems to be a timely replacement for
the Tanenbaum book (is it still being printed with NCP references?).
What I saw seemed as well written as his previous publications. I
just hope it makes it to print before it starts to get out of date...
It happens so quickly these days.
(Doug: hope I didn't let the cat out of the bag)
-PhilipPAP4@AI.AI.MIT.EDU ("Philip A. Prindeville") (12/15/87)
My apologies for being ambiguous -- apparently I left some people in doubt. The new Comer book is unrelated to the Xinu series... -Philip
parulkar@UDEL.EDU (Gurudatta Parulkar) (12/15/87)
(plug, plug, plug) > > Doug Comer ("Xinu", et al) is writing a book about Internetworking, > pretty much outside of the context of an operating system, though he > does talk briefly about 4.3BSD (sockets and utilites). The book > is fairly exhaustive, and seems to be a timely replacement for > the Tanenbaum book (is it still being printed with NCP references?). I believe Tanenbaum's book's Second edition is also coming out very soon. Of course, it wouldn't have as much on ARPA internet as Comer's book. (As per the local Prentice Hall Representative) -guru parulkar
verber@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Mark A. Verber) (12/15/87)
Doug Comer's book is already out. It's title is Operating System Design Volume II: Internetworking with Xinu. In my opinion it is the best book for someone to learn about the TCP/IP protocol suite from the ground up. Doug has once again put out a book which is highly readable. This book is also the reference manual for Xinu volume 7 which is running on Sun3, Macs, and Vaxen. Cheers, ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Computer Science Department Mark A. Verber The Ohio State University verber@ohio-state.arpa +1 (614) 292-7344 cbosgd!osu-cis!verber
alan@cunixc.columbia.edu (Alan Crosswell) (12/16/87)
In article <8712141019.aa12180@Dewey.UDEL.EDU> parulkar@UDEL.EDU (Gurudatta Parulkar) writes: > > (plug, plug, plug) >> >> Doug Comer ("Xinu", et al) is writing a book about Internetworking, >> pretty much outside of the context of an operating system, though he >> does talk briefly about 4.3BSD (sockets and utilites). The book >> is fairly exhaustive, and seems to be a timely replacement for >> the Tanenbaum book (is it still being printed with NCP references?). > >I believe Tanenbaum's book's Second edition is also coming out very >soon. Of course, it wouldn't have as much on ARPA internet as Comer's >book. (As per the local Prentice Hall Representative) > >-guru parulkar (unsolicited plug, but a plug just the same) You might also want to browse: Schwartz, Mischa. Telecommunication Networks: Protocols, Modeling and Analysis, Addison-Wesley, Reading, Mass., 1987. I like to read the protocol description sections and skip the modeling and analysis (aka queueing theory) parts :-) If you saw the grades I got a few years ago in Prof. Schwartz's modeling and performance analysis class you would know why. copied from the Table of Contents (sorry for the length; my little typing fingers got carried away): 1 Introduction and Overview Circuit and Packet Switching - A Brief Introduction The Need for Networks Interconnection of Networks Layered Communications Architectures Outline of the Book 2 Introduction to Queueing Theory Poisson Process The M/M/1 Queue Little's Formula, L=(lambda)W State-dependent Queues: Birth-death Processes M/G/1 Queue: Mean Value Analysis Nonpreemptive Priority Queueing Systems Problems 3 Layered Architectures in Data Networks OSI Standards Architecture and Protocols Unified View of OSI Protocols X.25 Protocol Systems Network Architecture(SNA) Problems 4 Data Link Layer: Examples and Performance Analysis Stop-and-Wait Protocol Go-Back-N Protocol Throughput Efficiency and Optimum Packet Length High-Level Data Link Control (HDLC) Throughput Analysis, Balanced HDLC Procedure Problems 5 Network Layer: Flow Control and Congestion Control X.25 Protocol X.25 Flow-control Mechanism Analysis of Window Flow-control Mechanisms Virtual Circuit Model Sliding-window Model Acknowledge-at-end-of-window Control SNA Path Control Virtual Route Pacing Control SNA Transmission Header Queueing Networks Product-form Solution, Exponential Network Open Queueing Networks Closed Queueing Networks Mean Value Analysis Input-buffer Limiting for Congestion Control Problems 6 Network Layer: Routing Function Bifurcated Routing Shortest-path Routing Decentralized Version of Algorithm B Examples of Routing in Networks and Network Architectures Virtual Circuit-oriented Networks Datagram-oriented Networks Performance Analysis of Distributed Routing Algorithms Distributed Algorithm B Predecessor Algorithm Loop-free Distributed Routing Algorithms Comparitve Performance Problems 7 Transport Layer OSI Transport Protocol Error-detection and Error-recovery Mechanisms in Transport Protocols Class-4 Transport Protocol Error-detection and Error-recovery Mechanisms Summary, Transport Protocols Class 4 - Finite State Machine Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) - Comparison with Transport Protocol, Class 4 Problems 8 Polling and Random Access in Data Networks Controlled-Access: Polling Roll-call Polling Hub Polling Random-access Techniques Pure Aloha Slotted Aloha Polling and Random Access Compared Metropolitan-area Networks: CATV Systems Random Access using CSMA/CD Problems 9 Local Area Networks Comparitive Performance, CSMA/CD and Token Ring IEEE 802 Local Area Network Standards Ethernet: CSMA/CD Local Area Network Token-passing Rings Problems 10 Introduction to Circuit Switching Simple Model, Circuit Switching: Queued Mode Circuit and Packet Switching Compared: Simple Model Elements of Traffic Engineering Digital Switching Networks Time Division Switching Block Probability Analysis of Multistage Switches: Lee Approximation Improved Approximate Analysis of Blocking Switch Examples of Digital Switching Systems AT&T No. 4 ESS Italtel UT 10/3 Switch System Problems 11 Call Processing in Digitial Circuit-switching Systems Software Organization and Call Processing Example: Italtel UT10/3 AT&T No. 5 ESS Analysis of Call-processing Procedure Overload Controls for Circuit-switching Machines Idealized Models of Overload Control Overload Controls for Hierarchical Distributed Systems Problems 12 The Evolution Toward Integrated Networks Routing in Circuit-switch Networks Hierarchical Routing Nonhierarchical Routing Control of Alternately Routed Traffic: Trunk Reservation for First-routed Traffic Common-channel Signaling for Circuit-switched Networks Message Transfer Part, Signalling Link Level Signalling System Performance High-level Features Integrated Services Digital Networks A Mathematical Prelude: Moment-generating Functions Models for Integrated Voice and Data Integration Using the FIFI Discipline Integration with Preemptive Priority Movable-boundary Strategy Continuous-time Analysis of Movable-boundary Scheme Movable-boundary Scheme: Approximate Analysis, Underload Region Movable-boundary Scheme: Fluid Flow Approximate Analysis, Overload Region Problems References Glossary Index /a
sjc@cs.purdue.EDU (Steve Chapin) (12/16/87)
In article <3209@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu}, verber@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Mark A. Verber) writes: } } Doug Comer's book is already out. It's title is Operating System } Design Volume II: Internetworking with Xinu. In my opinion it is the } best book for someone to learn about the TCP/IP protocol suite from } the ground up. Doug has once again put out a book which is highly } readable. This book is also the reference manual for Xinu volume 7 } which is running on Sun3, Macs, and Vaxen. } } Cheers, } ----------------------------------------------------------------------- } Computer Science Department Mark A. Verber } The Ohio State University verber@ohio-state.arpa } +1 (614) 292-7344 cbosgd!osu-cis!verber Well, a few corrections are in order: First, although Doug does have out Volume II of the Xinu series, he is also bringing out a new book (it went to the typesetter's today!) which is titled "Internetworking With TCP/IP: Principles, Protocols, and Architecture". I agree with Mark that Doug has a way of writing easily understandable books, without seeming patronizing. Also, version 7 Xinu isn't quite ready for the Sun-3...we are, however, shipping version 6 for the Sun-3. (Version 7 is availabe for Macs and Vaxen, plus PDP-11) Sun-3 Version 7 should be out around the end of January, since the slaves, er, grad students working on Xinu these days are Shawn Ostermann and myself, and we're involved taking nasty ol' qualifying exams. Always plugging the boss's stuff... Steve 'Xinu is my life' Chapin --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Steve Chapin | Chapin's Law of Motion: ARPA: sjc@gwen.cs.purdue.edu | You can get anywhere in 10 minutes UUCP: ...!purdue!sjc | if you drive fast enough. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
garrett@udel.EDU (Joel Garrett) (12/17/87)
In article <2692@arthur.cs.purdue.edu> sjc@cs.purdue.EDU (Steve Chapin) writes: > >Well, a few corrections are in order: First, although Doug does >have out Volume II of the Xinu series, he is also bringing out >a new book (it went to the typesetter's today!) which is titled >"Internetworking With TCP/IP: Principles, Protocols, and >Architecture". I agree with Mark that Doug has a way of writing >easily understandable books, without seeming patronizing. > Who is the publisher for this series of books? I would be very interested in ordering books of this type. Joel J. Garrett Research Associate Center for Composite Materials University of Delaware Newark, DE 19716 arpa: garrett@udel.edu or: garrett@udel-ccm.arpa
mckee@MITRE.ARPA (H. Craig McKee) (12/17/87)
Doug Comer's book, "Internetworking with TCP/IP ..." should be avaiable early February. It can be back-ordered from Prentice-Hall through their Order Dept. (201)767-5937.
PAP4@AI.AI.MIT.EDU ("Philip A. Prindeville") (12/18/87)
Well, since it is on it's way to press, Comer's new book will be published Prentice Hall, and is called (I think) 'An Introduction to Internetworking', or something very close. I'm too lazy to get it out of my car's back seat, downstairs in the parking lot... -Philip